beherrschen
German, verb
beherrschen is spelled B-E-H-E-R-R-S-C-H-E-N (11 letters) and appears 11 times per million words in written German, the 6,647th most frequent German word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Beherrschen is a German verb meaning “to master” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With a capital, Beherrschen is a different word: “gerund of beherrschen”. The German Wiktionary defines it as “Macht über jemand oder etwas ausüben”.
What does beherrschen mean in English?
verb
- 1
to master
- 2
to dominate
- 3
to restrain oneself
noun
- 1
neutergerund of beherrschen
Source: English Wiktionary, German section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How German dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Macht über jemand oder etwas ausüben 2. etwas sehr gut können 3. prägendes Merkmal sein 4. sich zurückhalten, zusammenreißen
The definition in the German Wiktionary, in German.
Source: German Wiktionary, dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of beherrschen
- beherrscht present singular third-person
- beherrschte past
- haben auxiliary
- beherrschend participle present
- beherrsche first-person indicative present
- beherrschst indicative present second-person
- beherrschest second-person singular subjunctive
- beherrschet plural second-person subjunctive
- beherrschten first-person indicative plural
- beherrschtest indicative preterite second-person
- beherrschtet indicative plural preterite
- beherrsch imperative second-person singular
- habe beherrscht first-person indicative multiword-construction
- beherrsche! imperative singular
- beherrsch! imperative singular
- beherrscht! imperative plural
- beherrscht haben active infinitive perfect
- beherrscht werden processual-passive infinitive present
Source: English Wiktionary and German Wiktionary (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
English words that translate to beherrschen
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is beherrschen in German?
beherrschen appears 11 times per million words in written German.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).